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Chapter 4
But
it
came
to
pass,
that
when
Sanballat
heard
that
we
builded
the
wall,
he
was
wroth,
and
took
great
indignation,
and
mocked
the
Jews.
2
And
he
spake
before
his
brethren
and
the
army
of
Samaria,
and
said,
What
do
these
feeble
Jews?
will
they
fortify
themselves?
will
they
sacrifice?
will
they
make
an
end
in
a
day?
will
they
revive
the
stones
out
of
the
heaps
of
the
rubbish
which
are
burned?
3
Now
Tobiah
the
Ammonite
was
by
him,
and
he
said,
Even
that
which
they
build,
if
a
fox
go
up,
he
shall
even
break
down
their
stone
wall.
4
Hear,
O
our
God;
for
we
are
despised:
and
turn
their
reproach
upon
their
own
head,
and
give
them
for
a
prey
in
the
land
of
captivity:
5
And
cover
not
their
iniquity,
and
let
not
their
sin
be
blotted
out
from
before
thee:
for
they
have
provoked
thee
to
anger
before
the
builders.
6
So
built
we
the
wall;
and
all
the
wall
was
joined
together
unto
the
half
thereof:
for
the
people
had
a
mind
to
work.
7
But
it
came
to
pass,
that
when
Sanballat,
and
Tobiah,
and
the
Arabians,
and
the
Ammonites,
and
the
Ashdodites,
heard
that
the
walls
of
Jerusalem
were
made
up,
and
that
the
breaches
began
to
be
stopped,
then
they
were
very
wroth,
8
And
conspired
all
of
them
together
to
come
and
to
fight
against
Jerusalem,
and
to
hinder
it.
9
Nevertheless
we
made
our
prayer
unto
our
God,
and
set
a
watch
against
them
day
and
night,
because
of
them.
10
And
Judah
said,
The
strength
of
the
bearers
of
burdens
is
decayed,
and
there
is
much
rubbish;
so
that
we
are
not
able
to
build
the
wall.
11
And
our
adversaries
said,
They
shall
not
know,
neither
see,
till
we
come
in
the
midst
among
them,
and
slay
them,
and
cause
the
work
to
cease.
12
And
it
came
to
pass,
that
when
the
Jews
which
dwelt
by
them
came,
they
said
unto
us
ten
times,
From
all
places
whence
ye
shall
return
unto
us
they
will
be
upon
you.
13
Therefore
set
I
in
the
lower
places
behind
the
wall,
and
on
the
higher
places,
I
even
set
the
people
after
their
families
with
their
swords,
their
spears,
and
their
bows.
14
And
I
looked,
and
rose
up,
and
said
unto
the
nobles,
and
to
the
rulers,
and
to
the
rest
of
the
people,
Be
not
ye
afraid
of
them:
remember
the
Lord,
which
is
great
and
terrible,
and
fight
for
your
brethren,
your
sons,
and
your
daughters,
your
wives,
and
your
houses.
15
And
it
came
to
pass,
when
our
enemies
heard
that
it
was
known
unto
us,
and
God
had
brought
their
counsel
to
nought,
that
we
returned
all
of
us
to
the
wall,
every
one
unto
his
work.
16
And
it
came
to
pass
from
that
time
forth,
that
the
half
of
my
servants
wrought
in
the
work,
and
the
other
half
of
them
held
both
the
spears,
the
shields,
and
the
bows,
and
the
habergeons;
and
the
rulers
were
behind
all
the
house
of
Judah.
17
They
which
builded
on
the
wall,
and
they
that
bare
burdens,
with
those
that
laded,
every
one
with
one
of
his
hands
wrought
in
the
work,
and
with
the
other
hand
held
a
weapon.
18
For
the
builders,
every
one
had
his
sword
girded
by
his
side,
and
so
builded.
And
he
that
sounded
the
trumpet
was
by
me.
19
And
I
said
unto
the
nobles,
and
to
the
rulers,
and
to
the
rest
of
the
people,
The
work
is
great
and
large,
and
we
are
separated
upon
the
wall,
one
far
from
another.
20
In
what
place
therefore
ye
hear
the
sound
of
the
trumpet,
resort
ye
thither
unto
us:
our
God
shall
fight
for
us.
21
So
we
laboured
in
the
work:
and
half
of
them
held
the
spears
from
the
rising
of
the
morning
till
the
stars
appeared.
22
Likewise
at
the
same
time
said
I
unto
the
people,
Let
every
one
with
his
servant
lodge
within
Jerusalem,
that
in
the
night
they
may
be
a
guard
to
us,
and
labour
on
the
day.
23
So
neither
I,
nor
my
brethren,
nor
my
servants,
nor
the
men
of
the
guard
which
followed
me,
none
of
us
put
off
our
clothes,
saving
that
every
one
put
them
off
for
washing.
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